![]() ![]() The stories in here are stunning and quite moving, but also frustrating, even 90 years after the fact. ![]() This is one of those books that fills in the blanks on the things you missed in history class – or the things you were never told in the first place. On the topics of racism and war, “Half American” will tell you some tales. No matter how much you think you know a subject, there are always stories you’re missing. These dual war aims coalesced under a slogan that came to define the Black American experience during the war: Double V.” Victory would be incomplete unless it also uprooted white supremacy. Thurgood Marshall, chief lawyer for the NAACP, became “energized” by his work for equality, particularly that of Black Americans who wanted to volunteer to “serve their country without being degraded by their countrymen.”īut, says Delmont, that “was only half the fight. Philip Randolph organized a march on Washington for the rights of soldiers and Homefront workers. ![]()
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